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Our Anniversary Trip, Part 2

Our Anniversary Trip, Part 2

If you haven’t read Part 1, you can read it here: https://applehurst.com/our-anniversary-trip-part-1/ We ate at several new restaurants this week to celebrate our 20th anniversary. There are not very many “fine dining” restaurants near us, so (especially for our anniversary) we enjoy experiencing different restaurant 

Our anniversary trip, Part 1

Our anniversary trip, Part 1

In case you haven’t noticed by our silence, we were out of town this week! (We had hoped to schedule a few posts for while we were gone, you can see how that worked)…. 🙂 Grant & I enjoyed a few days away this week 

Front Garden Transformation

Front Garden Transformation

Hi, this is Lizzy. =) Xanna and I worked together to turn this front garden area…….. (sorry, we don’t have a before picture — see the bottom for the final result).

4H Sewing 2019

4H Sewing 2019

Today was the judging for 4H sewing. Keira & Lizzy both made pillowcases. This is our first year of 4H & it has been such a learning curve with SOO much to learn. We look forward to starting sooner for next year & planning some 

Baby chicks part 2

Baby chicks part 2

A few more baby chick pictures…

Working on 4H projects

Working on 4H projects

We are busy around here working on our 4H projects…sewing, baking, painting, writing. Chickens & rabbits & eggs, oh my!

Incubating & hatching chickens

Incubating & hatching chickens

We have had chickens for over 2 years, but this has been our first year to incubate eggs & hatch our own instead of purchasing them. It has been such a neat experience for our family & everyone is always excited by the new chickens. 

Sunday games

Sunday games

Yesterday afternoon we took a much needed day of REST! We played games, laughed a lot & were so thankful for the time. Instead of playing a game all together, we spent the afternoon playing games with 1 or 2 kids at a time. Often 

Sweet times with baby

Sweet times with baby

Xanna took some fun pictures of Ellie with Grant & I as we were getting her ready for bed. She just kept going back & forth between us…

Finding ways to help…

Finding ways to help…

Over the years there have been many, many times that families have blessed us by bringing a meal to our family – whether it was following an illness, birth, death, when I was in the hospital or out of town for my grandparents’ funerals. As